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NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) — A 2024 election debate continues in North Carolina as state Supreme Court justices will now decide the fate of a race for who sits on the bench with them.
Sent back to North Carolina by a federal judge on Monday, the conservative-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court blocked the certification of the election result between incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs and Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin so they can review Griffin’s arguments that 60,000 votes should not be counted.
Verified by multiple recounts, Riggs has a 734-vote lead over Griffin.
“The vast majority of these 60,000 votes are people who don’t have the last four digits of their social security number, or a portion of their driver’s license number recorded on the voter roll for the state of North Carolina,” News 13 political analyst, Dr. Chris Cooper said.
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“There will be people who went to vote believing that they were eligible voters, somebody at the board of elections confirmed that and said they were eligible voters, allowed them to cast that vote, that vote was then counted and then if someone were to come in the court at the end of all of this and say ‘oh yeah, actually we shouldn’t have counted those we need backsies, then yes, I think that is an absolutely legitimate claim that they were disenfranchised,” Cooper said.
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton put out this statement following the Tuesday decision:
“Justice Allison Riggs won her seat fair and square and that will continue to be demonstrated before the courts. Justice Riggs deserves her certificate of election and we are only in this position due to Jefferson Griffin refusing to accept the will of the people. He is hellbent on finding new ways to overthrow this election but we are confident that the evidence will show, like they did throughout multiple recounts, that she is the rightful winner in this race. The NCDP will continue to fight for justice and ensure that the will of North Carolinians will be heard.”
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“What’s happening here is that Griffin is saying these voters shouldn’t have been counted, so sure it still adds up to the same number, but 60,000 of these shouldn’t have been counted in the first place,” Cooper said.
Briefs must be filed by January 24. Cooper said he is hopeful for an answer by the end of the month, but there is no guarantee of that.
A decision by Supreme Court justices to vote along party lines, Cooper said, sets off a series of dominoes he says he can’t keep track of.
“These 60,000 voters that are challenged, they voted for more than just the state supreme court justice election so I’m just not sure what it would mean for those offices. What’s it going to mean for anyone else who won any election that is anywhere near close and I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that question.”
